Mount Benvolio

Mount Benvolio is a glacier-clad peak in Garibaldi Provincial Park in southwestern British Columbia, rising southeast of Whistler as the second-highest point in the Fitzsimmons Range. Ice surrounds much of the mountain, with the Benvolio, Diavolo, and Fitzsimmons glaciers feeding tributaries of the Cheakamus River. Phyllis Munday and Don Munday first climbed it in 1923 by way of the Benvolio Glacier. Its name was chosen in 1964 by an Alpine Club of Canada climbing party to mark the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s birth, honoring the character Benvolio from Romeo and Juliet, and it was officially adopted in 1965.

British Columbia · Canada